Falcon 9 Block 5 | EarthCARE
Space Launch Complex 4E
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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SpaceX
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
EarthCARE
EarthCARE (Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer) is a joint mission of ESA and JAXA. The main goal of the mission is the observation and characterization of clouds and aerosols as well as measuring the reflected solar radiation and the infrared radiation emitted from Earth's surface and atmosphere.
Falcon 9 Block 5
Height 70.00 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 8300 kg
Liftoff Thrust 7607 kN
Diameter 3.65 Meters
Mass To LEO 22800 kg
Liftoff Mass 549 Tonnes
Launch Success 272
Consecutive Success 272
Maiden Flight 2018-05-11
Launch Failures 0
Updates
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-10-28T00:27:33+0000
NET May 2024.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-07-02T00:52:37+0000
NET 2Q 2024.
Nosu
2023-06-29T12:34:12+0000
Moved to Falcon 9 from Vega-C due to a delayed return to flight after a launch failure and the larger than expected spacecraft size requiring cutouts in the Vega-C fairing.
Nosu
2022-10-20T12:23:01+0000
Updating launch vehicle to Vega-C
